Some fans will say these are two different trucks: One rolls right off the showroom floor ready to go, while the other is essentially a box of parts requiring a high level of expertise for the owner to finish on his own.

As is tradition, we get to try out our Truck of the Year winner for a year. For our long-termer, we got a 2012 Lariat and chose to equip the truck with the lineup's most intriguing engine, the twin-turbo 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6.

It's the classic lone biker cliche of thinking I'm some sort of badass on the open asphalt with the wind in my hair, the drone of a deafening exhaust, and the attitude that shows no regard to the law. Only I'm not actually on a Harley-Davidson bike, but in a 2012 Ford F-150 SuperCrew Harley-Davidson

Ford is not letting its 2012 Truck of the Year award get to its head. Although it gave the F-150 line an all-new power train lineup from top to bottom in 2011, it's taking the opportunity for the 2013 model year of making some noteworthy updates to the truck's cabin tech features. And not just on th